reliable narrator

What’s an idea, dynamic, or trope in your current work that feels naughty or self-indulgent?

Katherine Zeta: everything I write about KZ, awful and hot woman that she is, is self indulgent

Vinny: Vinny's long lovely hair (not a wig!) is 1000% me indulging my own long hair envy paired with my own thick soft hair pride. I tend to lean into personal care trope with her and that's also just me writing what I enjoy

Is your OC a virgin, blushing maiden, or sexual fiend? or aro/ace? or something in between?

Katherine Zeta: average? she's like, fine at sex. had some one-night-stands with fellow Arbites or peer-level officers, it's fortunate that Kibellah is also not that experienced and they can kind of learn together

Vinny: was pretty sexually open on Maref, will continue to pursue (nearly) anyone who catches her interest. For her, political concerns (is this frenemy going to get me naked then kill me? is this for fun or are they buttering me up?) are more of a hang-up than any puritanical concerns, but she likes the game there too so it's all good. (RIP Vinny, you would have made a good drow, loving and backstabbing alike in the underdark.)

Ermengarde: touch adverse + touch starved = terrible times for our Ermengarde

What’s your OC’s “I shouldn’t be turned on by this” trigger?

Katherine Zeta: Katherine doesn't have an 'I shouldn't' bone in her body

Vinny: probably the dacryphilia fic she wants the best for her loved ones but she can't help liking them all crying and trembling in her arms😢

Ermengarde: she's at the level of tightly-wound suppression that anything that turns Ermengarde on is sending off alarm bells

What’s your OC’s hard NO?

Katherine Zeta: she's not into anyone who's not into her, preferably they're into her even a little more than she's into them lol

Vinny: she gets squicked at power imbalance now! on Maref, it was a different ball game, because players could move up or down the Waterway gang's hierarchy, that nobody today could be wielding power over you tomorrow -- but her ship has much less mobility. As Lord Captain she might daydream about people but anyone less than an officer feels ethically off-limits.

Ermengarde: her hard no is romance... anything actually intimate or close, particularly that she can't control

What is the most debauched VP/Art you have ever created?

I don't draw a lot of smut like that... the two I can think of are both Katherine Zeta. so idk Katherine's mirror clones picture

What is the wildest NSFW smut you have ever thought up? Did you write it?

Katherine Zeta: the mirror clone fic that goes with the art :)

Vinny: back from last kinktober there were a few Vinny ones that didn't get done... the wildest I think was Vinny x Ulfar x a couple other Space Wolves from his squad, post-mission sauna gangbang... but my heart wasn't in it. hot to imagine but not enough really going on there character-wise to write it out.

Ermengarde: it's not smut so much as uncomfortable/unethical sex in a fic

Do you have any crazy projects for the future?

Katherine Zeta: this isn't smut, but Katherine Zeta's Vat-Baby Dynastic Olympics is still on a back burner.

I didn't think I had any other WIPs for Katherine, but looking through my old kinktober notes I did find this, so maybe I'll pull that out again and finish it for this year's

Vinny: I have semi-finished outlines for both Vinny x Vistenza Vyatt, and Jae/Cassia/Vinny post-bookclub scene... Jae, Lord Captain, what did it mean when they did this in the novel? Let us show you, shereen😘

Ermengarde: putting Ermengarde in a box and sealing it. she had her moment.